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Clear air starts
with early warning.

Providing 6–48 hours of advance warning before dangerous wildfire smoke arrives in your city. Powered by a network of 440 monitoring stations across Canada and the U.S.

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Coverage: Canada

One monitoring network for early warning — positioned upstream of the cities that need it most.

Detect upstream

Monitoring stations 100–600+ km away detect smoke plumes hours before they reach major cities.

Model with 21 years

21 wildfire seasons of NAPS data (2003–2023) build correlation models between remote stations and city PM2.5 levels.

Alert in real time

Color-coded health warnings trigger automatically when smoke is detected approaching your city.

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Hourly PM2.5 measurements
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Monitoring stations
309 NAPS + 131 U.S. EPA
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Wildfire seasons
2003–2023
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Wildfire events validated

360° smoke detection

Three complementary rules catch incoming wildfire smoke from any direction — each validated independently against 21 years of historical data.

Upstream
station
smoke travels 100–600+ km
City
alerted
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Regional Station Alert
Ontario & Québec · 100–650 km
Trigger: station > 40 µg/m³ and predicted city ≥ 20 µg/m³

Primary detection for nearby fires. Regression predicts city PM2.5 from each upstream station and alerts only when the prediction clears the health threshold.

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NW Ontario Sequential
Northwestern Ontario · 1,000–1,800 km
Trigger: Thunder Bay > 35 µg/m³ + intermediate > 20 µg/m³

Two-stage detection for distant NW fires. The Thunder Bay sentinel fires first; intermediate corridor stations then confirm smoke transport toward the city.

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NE Corridor (Québec)
Québec upstream · 500–1,400 km NE
Trigger: station > 40 µg/m³ (as in Rule 1)

Eastern monitoring network — Montréal, Ottawa, Québec City, Cornwall and more — covering the corridor that carries Québec wildfire smoke toward Ontario.

Proof: Toronto, June 2023

Seven major Québec fires burned at once. Toronto reached a record 241 µg/m³ — and upstream stations flagged EXTREME conditions days ahead.

EXTREME ≥ 120 µg/m³ 0 120 240 June 2023 — Toronto PM2.5 (µg/m³) Ottawa · 156 Cornwall · 160 241 µg/m³

Illustrative Toronto profile; peak (241 µg/m³, Jun 28) and upstream alerts from project data.

June 3
Rule 3 · NE Corridor
Ottawa — 341 km NE
156 µg/m³
EXTREME
June 6
Rule 1 · Regional
Cornwall — 387 km ENE
160 µg/m³
EXTREME
June 28
Toronto — peak
Toronto's highest PM2.5 on record
241 µg/m³
EXTREME

Source: CLEAR_Methodology_ScienceFair Ver#1 — Toronto, June 2023 Québec wildfire event.

Five alert levels

Predicted PM2.5 maps to a colour-coded health alert, each with a clear public-health action.

LOW
0–20 µg/m³
No significant risk. No action required.
MODERATE
20–60 µg/m³
Sensitive groups should reduce outdoor activity.
HIGH
60–80 µg/m³
General population affected. Use an N95/KN95 mask outdoors.
VERY HIGH
80–120 µg/m³
Significant risk for all. Avoid outdoor exertion; keep windows closed.
EXTREME
> 120 µg/m³
Emergency conditions. Stay indoors; run a HEPA filter.

Four target cities

The C.L.E.A.R. methodology covers four major Canadian cities. Toronto is fully validated against 21 years of historical wildfire-smoke events.

Toronto · 2003–2023
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Detection accuracy across 33 validated wildfire events — with zero missed events (100% sensitivity).

In scope
Toronto
Ontario
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Vancouver
British Columbia
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Montréal
Québec
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Edmonton
Alberta
Built on open government air-quality data
NAPS Environment Canada U.S. EPA WAQI

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